Protest at SPAK against Veliaj's arrest, DP: They flocked on Rama's orders

Today, supporters of the Socialist Party gathered in front of the Special Court, protesting against the arrest of the Mayor of Tirana, Erion Veliaj, who was arrested on Monday by decision of the Special Court for the criminal offense of passive corruption and laundering of the proceeds of crime.

The DP reacted through its Coordinator for Tirana, Klevis Balliu, who described it as a “staged protest” on the orders of Prime Minister Edi Rama. According to Balliu, the protesters were “salaries threatened with their livelihoods,” led by leaders of the municipal police and the Territory Protection Inspectorate.

Full statement:

By order of acting mayor Edi Rama, Tirana Municipality employees flocked today to the doors of the GJKKO to "protest" against the arrest of Erion Veliaj, one of the two de facto owners of the Tirana incinerator, caught red-handed for the thefts and abuses that he and his wife have committed in the Tirana Municipality.

The crowds of rioters who were threatened with their livelihoods were led by the director of the municipal police, Syl Ismaili, and former director Ermal Kapllanaj, as well as the head of the IMT.

On the other hand, it is nothing more than an illegal crime scene and the thug directors, co-authors of Veliaj's crimes, should have been arrested for violating the law by not notifying the protest.

This support comes at a time when evidence of the atrocities that occurred in the Municipality of Tirana has come to light, where Veliaj's wife had recently spent 868 thousand euros on clothes alone.

So much money that those rioters who were at that protest wouldn't even have enough to save in 100 years of work.

This protest comes at a time when it has already been proven that the "new mayor" drinks more than 33 thousand euros worth of wine in just one lunch.

And while this masquerade was happening, the media, the narco-state media, was asking us to feel sorry for the person responsible for the most massive thefts in the history of the capital.

But the question that comes to mind as we listen to their media cacophony is simple:

Did Veliaj and his partner feel sorry for the residents of the ring road who, for 420 days, protested with their children against a corrupt affair that stole their homes, their bread, and their children's futures?

What about those 1,500 rioters who tried prison, those other 2,000 who faced court cases and the brutal violence of the police state?

They too were the mothers and fathers of the children of this area.

Did you feel sorry for Era Mandri, an 8-year-old girl who, under the police's batons, along with her family, was dragged away...

Or the Peposhi family, who had tear gas fired in their baby's room.

Did they feel sorry for a pregnant lady in the ring who was dragged away to be escorted to the police station...

For the children of these citizens whose parents were arrested, the biggest problem was not who would take them to kindergarten or nursery school, but what they would be fed!

Veliaj is in prison today on the orders of Edi Rama, for breaking deals between them, and for this we have nothing but regret.

The "tears" that Rama pretends to shed for him are actually the panic bells that have gripped him from the end that is in store for him in the upcoming elections.

He asks for Veliaj's protection, asks him not to talk about everything he saw and did together. Edi Rama should have been in that cell a long time ago.

In this process, and in all the scandals or trials of thieves that he himself had called to arms, the one in charge is him alone.

Therefore, the use of those employees who pretend to protest for their boss who would leave no stone unturned to put his hands in the pockets of the thieves is nothing more than evidence of how people in this country are threatened and asked to protest for a thief. This is as sad as it is true!

We've been seeing it for 12 years.

The Democratic Party asks Veliaj's replacement in the Municipality to stop acting like a fool and let people do their jobs. These kinds of scenes will not save it from losing on May 11, but also from the fate that awaits it after this date.

If Veliaj suffers today for Ajola's dresses because his colleagues spared him, this will not happen with Rama.

Be sure that he will be held accountable for all the thefts, affairs, concessions, strategic investors, the organized crime with which he sits at tables, and lobbying against the opposition using tax money.

Rama's time is up, it's pointless to slam tables and scream, no one is listening!